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Do You Want To Reduce Your Supply Chain Planning
Do You Want To Reduce Your Supply Chain Planning
Do You Want To Reduce Your Supply Chain Planning
Do
you want to automate your inventory replenishment? Do you know how a sudden
reduction of supplier capacity impacts your customers demand? Do you know how a
change in customers demand impacts your downstream suppliers? Oracle
Collaborative Planning is an Internet-based collaboration solution that rapidly and
significantly improves supply chain performance by providing advanced capabilities for
collaborative demand, supply, and inventory planning across your virtual supply chain.
Overview
Todays collaborative planning processes are often a collection of multiple disconnected
processes. In most cases, limited collaboration with customers leads to low forecast
accuracy; low visibility to customer forecasts and supplier commits leads to holding too
much just in case inventory, increasing inventory costs; 2nd-tier suppliers that deliver
key components have no means to interact directly with you; and, indirect costs are high
because of extensive expediting and inefficient communication. The entire process has
little collaboration, requires multiple steps, and takes a long time. Oracle provides a
better way to to enable multi-enterprise planning. You can collaborate securely with your
trading partners, reduce planning cycle time, and identify and react quickly to supply
chain exceptions. By getting early visibility to your supply commit changes and making
your suppliers aware of your order forecast changes, you can quickly streamline crossenterprise planning and operations. Oracle Collaborative Planning enables you to
increase forecast accuracy, implement vendor managed and consigned inventory
processes, increase global supply visibility, reduce supply shortages, and lower
expediting cost.
Key Features:
Increase global visibility and reduce supply shortages
Share inventory levels and locations with key trading partners and pool inventory for
critical parts to reduce stock-outs and increase service levels.
Key Benefits:
Stock-out analysis
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previous flow, you set up your agreements, record the material consumption, and trigger
the replenishment process.
Stock-out analysis
As you share inventory levels and locations with selected trading partners you pool the
inventory for critical parts. As a result you can reduce stock-outs and increase service
levels, as you can easily find inventory and determine the best supply location when a
customer needs a critical part. Often, order policies are not reviewed until multiple
shortages occur, or it becomes apparent that excess inventory has been held for an
extended period of time. Oracle Collaborative Planning provides comprehensive stockout analysis to analyze trends per location over time and enables you to proactively
adjust order policies before problems occur.
Most companies today collaborate with their suppliers to a limited extent, often limited to
a few key tier-1 suppliers. Oracle Collaborative Planning offers a more robust process
that enables you and your suppliers to compare order forecasts and supply commits,
view exceptions for demand-supply mismatches, and analyze supplier commit
performance over time through waterfall analysis. You can react faster to suppliers
constraints and reallocate key components and make alternate sourcing decisions.
Oracle Collaborative Planning in combination with Oracle Advanced Supply Chain
Planning enables a completely integrated internal and external view of the supply plan.
For example, the output of your plan can be published to your suppliers via Oracle
Collaborative Planning directly from the Planners Workbench. The commitments from
your suppliers come back as supplier capacity that is considered as a constraint in
determining what you can produce to meet your demand based on your supplier
capabilities. In addition, planners can view both supply chain collaboration exceptions
and plan related exceptions in a single place.
Waterfall analysis
The system supports detailed analysis of supplier commits, order forecasts, and
customer forecasts over time though waterfall analysis. You can track how your
customer forecasts change over time and compare your forecasts with your customers.
You can also track how your suppliers commits change over time and compare your
order forecast with your suppliers commits. Having complete visibility, versioning, and
audit trail, enables you to improve your collaboration process as you continue to work
with your trading partners.
your suppliers and customers can view and enter, and which exceptions they receive at
what thresholds.